[Clipart] unifying Projects - was: 3d mesh/object library

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 08:48 +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> Tobias Jakobs wrote:
>   > I have 3 points we should think about:
> > 
> > 1. Do we really need more contributors at openclipart.org? (Tat my be
> > different for openfontlibrary.org)
> 
> Definitely, we need a lot more contributors at OCAL:
> - we don't have yet thumbnails generation;
> - we don't have a clean way to import the old images;
> - ccHost does not interact in any way with the metadata (read or write);
> - we have no way to batch-upload images (tarballs).
> And just think at the huge effort needed to sort the images (over 7000) 
> after we manage to import the old archive.

Agree...need php coders and/or some type of cloning process for
rererererejons...which is scary and dangerous ;)

> > 2. One of our main target group are open source projects, and they can't
> > use CC BY or CC BY-SA images in GPL or LGPL projects.
> 
> I see a lot of people confused by this and I am confused too: is or is 
> not allowed to use CC BY or CC BY-SA in a GPL project? Some argue one 
> way and some the other and I can understand to certain degree both 
> points of view. I would *really* like to see an authoritative answer.
> With that being said, I think PD serve the best OCAL's mission and CC BY 
> or CC BY-SA are better suited for more complex graphics, which are out 
> of our goal.

I think works fine...anyway...PD is simple...

> > 3. It makes it for the user (contributor and consumer) more complex.

This is true...

Jon

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